CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-3838
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-03-25
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.3 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-648
Description
It was found that the forceput operator could be extracted from the DefineResource method in ghostscript before 9.27. A specially crafted PostScript file could use this flaw in order to, for example, have access to the file system outside of the constrains imposed by -dSAFER.
Affected configurations
• artifex ghostscript (< 9.27)
• redhat ansible tower 3.3
• redhat enterprise linux 5.0
• redhat enterprise linux 6.0
• redhat enterprise linux desktop 7.0
• redhat enterprise linux server 7.0
• redhat enterprise linux server aus 7.6
• redhat enterprise linux server eus 7.6
• redhat enterprise linux server tus 7.6
• redhat enterprise linux workstation 7.0
• fedoraproject fedora 28
• fedoraproject fedora 29
• fedoraproject fedora 30
• opensuse leap 15.0
• opensuse leap 42.3
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-648 Incorrect Use of Privileged APIs weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00011.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00018.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152367/Slackware-Security-Advisory-ghostscript-Updates.html Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0652 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0971 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700576 Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3838 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00021.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A43SRQAEHQCKSEMIBINHUNIGHTDCZD7F/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ANBSCZABXQUEQWIKNWJ35IYX24M227EI/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SVERLGEU3OV6RNZ2SIBXREWD3BF5H23N/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Apr/28 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Apr/4 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202004-03 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4432 Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00011.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00018.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152367/Slackware-Security-Advisory-ghostscript-Updates.html Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0652 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0971 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700576 Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3838 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00021.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A43SRQAEHQCKSEMIBINHUNIGHTDCZD7F/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ANBSCZABXQUEQWIKNWJ35IYX24M227EI/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SVERLGEU3OV6RNZ2SIBXREWD3BF5H23N/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Apr/28 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Apr/4 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202004-03 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4432 Third Party Advisory